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Feasibility Study on Carbonate Looping Process for Post Combustion CO2-Capture from Coal fired Power Plants

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Epple Energy Systems & Technology www.est.tu-darmstadt.de

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CO2 Capture from Coal-Fired Power Plants Overview of Processes Flue gas scrubbing (z.B. MEA scrubbing) Very high energy demand ( ~ 14%), high costs Environmental problems (toxic absorbents) Post-combustion technology -> retrofit possible Far developed

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Oxyfuel combustion High energy demand (air separation) Need for further development (e.g. steam generator/burner) Gasification technology (IGCC) Pre-combustion technology High energy demand, high costs, complex process Need for further development (e.g. H2 gas turbine) Membrane processes (z.B. AZEP, Oxycoal) Oxyfuel technology Low energy demand High need for development (e.g. materials) Oxyfuel Chemical Looping Post-combustion Carbonate Looping

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Post Combustion

Carbonate Looping

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Carbonate-Looping Principle
Decarbonated flue gas

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CO2 to compression
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CaCO3 CARBONATOR 650 C CaO CALCINER 900 C Make-up CaCO3

Fuel Flue gas from power plant Ash Deactiveted lime O2

Post-combustion process Energy demand for O2 supply to calciner (~1/3 of oxyfuel)

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Carbonate Looping: Reaktivity of CaO

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Decrease of reactivity of CaO with number of cycles Reactivity converges against constant values of approx. 15 %

Application to continuous operation of two reactors Active fraction of CaO (Formula of Abanades (2005)) :
Xcarb = fm (1 fw ) F 0 + fw F 0 + FR (1 fm )

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Experiments in batch reactor with cyclic carbonisation/calcination (Abanades, 2002)

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Process Scheme for Retrofit

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CO2 reduced flue gas Carbonator 650 C Q2 Q4

CO2 compression

Calciner 900 C

Q1 FGD Fan

CaO CaCO 3
3

CaCO3 Coal

Q3 Preheater CaO/CaCO 3

O2

ASU

Source: Romeo et al. Mod. by EST TU Darmstadt

Cold end of reference power plant 1052 MWel


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Reference Power Plant 1052 MWel

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Power Efficiency Fuel


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MWth MWel (net) % (net)

2308 1052 45,6 Hard coal

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ASPEN Model: Carbonate Looping

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ASPEN-Modell: Assumptions
Flue gas from reference plant after FGD

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Pressure increase by fan before carbonator: 200 mbar 99 % SO2 capture in carbonator und calciner Coal burn-out in calciner: 99,5 % Oxygen excess in calciner: = 1,1 O2 purity after ASU: 95 % Energy demand for ASU: 185 kWh/t O2
(Source: IVD Stuttgart)

Cooling of flue gases in steam generator down to 330 C; below cooling for internal pre-heating down to ~100 C Water/steam process according to reference plant 100 % CO2 capture in calciner CO2 compression treated separately (considered later)

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Aim: 80 % CO2 capture in carbonator

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ASPEN Results: Mass Flows


8000 7000 200 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 Makeup [t/h] 100 150 250

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zirkulierender Massenstrom [t/h] Circulating mass flow [t/h]


Coal mass flow Kohlestrom [t/h] [t/h]

50

0 175

High Makeup rate (at constant CO2 capture rate in carbonator of 80 %): High Active fraction of CaO low circulating mass flow required Low energy demand in calciner for heating CaCO3 from 650 to 900 C
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CirculatingMassenstrom mass flow [t/h] Zirkulierender [t/h]

Kohlestrom Coal mass flow[t/h] [t/h]

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ASPEN Results: Efficiency


-2,0 Wirkungsgradeinbue Plant efficiency drop[%-Punkte] [% points]
*

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100

X CO 2 =
-2,5

CO 2CL,out Pel, KW + Pel, CL  Kohle,KW + m  Kohle,CL ) Hu (m


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CO 2KW ,RG + CO 2CL,fuel + CO 2CL,makeup


CO [%] [%] 2-Effizienz CO efficiency

95

-3,0

90

-3,5
Plant efficiency drop [% points] Wirkungsgradeinbue CO2 efficiency [%] CO2-Effizienz

85

-4,0 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 Makeup [t/h]

80 175

* without CO2 compression

High Makeup rate (at constant CO2 capture rate in carbonator of 80 %): Lower energy demand for heating solids, but higher energy demand for first calcination of fresh limestone Less CO2 from coal in calciner (i.e. captured by 100 %)
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Heat Balance of Steam Generator

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Boundary conditions:
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Steam parameters as in reference plant: SH: 600 C, 285 bar RH: 620 C, 59 bar T > 23 K Feed wate before ECO: 307 C Cooling of flue gas down to 330 C

Results (APROS): Live steam: 476,6 kg/s El. gross power: 636,2 MW (as in ASPEN results)

Calciner

Carbonator

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ALSTOM CFB Boiler > 200 MWel


Customer Power plant Country Gross [MWel] 300 300 300 300 300 300 300 268 340 290 290 250 250 250 250 208 220 220 250

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China Guodian Corp. China Guodian Corp. Qinhuangdao Power Qinhuangdao Power Yunnan Datang Honghe Yunnan Datang Honghe Sichuan Baima Power East Kentucky Power ENEL Reliant Reliant AES Puerto Rico AES Puerto Rico Choctaw Generation Choctaw Generation AES Warrior Run Korea Electric Power Korea Electric Power EdF/Soprolif

Xialongtan Xialongtan Qinhuangdao #6 Qinhuangdao #5 Kaiyuan 1 Kaiyuan 2 Baima Gilbert/Spurlock Sulcis Seward #2 Seward #1 Guayama 1 Guayama 2 Red Hills 1 Red Hills 2 Warrior Run Tonghae 1 Tonghae 2 Provence IV

China China China China China China China USA Italy USA USA Puerto Rico Puerto Rico USA USA USA South Korea South Korea France

Year of commissioning 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2005 2004 2004 2004 2004 2002 2002 2001 2001 2000 1998 1998 1995

Fuel

Bituminous coal Bituminous coal Brown coal Brown coal Anthracite Bituminous coal Bituminous coal Bituminous coal Bituminous coal Waste coal Waste coal Bituminous coal Bituminous coal Brown coal Brown coal Bituminous coal Anthracite Anthracite Lignite

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Largest CFB Boiler


Lagisza/PL 460 MWe CFB ,

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293 m2

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Quelle: Foster Wheeler

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Conclusions
Chemical Looping:

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restricted suitability for retrofit of existing power plants (CFB) promising option for new power plants with CO2 capture Carbonate Looping: efficiency drop (less than 3 % * ) mainly due to supply of O2, but significantly lower than oxyfuel combustion or MEA scrubbing *plus CO2 compression = in total 6 % efficiency drop well suited for retrofit of existing power plants (repowering)

For further investigation regarding in 1 MWth scale at TU Darmstadt

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potentially lowest efficiency drop (< 1 % without CO2 compression)

Combustion chamber for exhaust gas generation

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Main items for modifications


combustion chamber

Ash container

ignition device chamber (combustion volume) bottom ash separation fly-ashes (blower, filter)

flue gases

bottom ash

blower

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fabric filter

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Carbonator
CFB600
Thermal duty height Pressure External diameter Internal diameter Baghouse working T up to 1MW

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Baghouse filter Carbonator By-pass

200mbar 1,3 m 0,6 m 140-180 C

Start-up burner Venturi scrubber

CFB600 as Carbonator primary air and flue gas source connection with the calciner dust separation and extraction

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10 m

Heat exchanger

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Calciner (or Gasifier)


ACFBG
Thermal duty Flue gas T height External diameter Internal diameter Baghouse working T Reactor pressure 1500 kW 700 - 1000 C 10,5 m 1000 mm 400 mm 300-400 C 0-100MBAR (G)

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Flue gases

ACFBG as Calciner pipe connections gasification mode


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Ansichten 3D-Modell

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CO2-Abscheidung in kohlebefeuerten Kraftwerken mittels Kalkstein

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Ansichten 3D-Modell

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Acknowledgements

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The financial support by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) und the Utility Companies (EON; EnBW; Evonik; RWE)

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OXYFUEL

Chemical Looping

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Chemical-Looping Principle N2 CO2 H2O

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(1) Air reactor MexOy (1)


Air reactor 2 MexOy-1 + O2 2 MexOy

(2)
Fuel reactor

MexOy-1

(2) Fuel reactor


MexOy + Fuel MexOy-1 + CO2 + H2O

AIR
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Fuel

Oxyfuel process No energy demand for separation of N2/O2

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